Correction: In relation to Gay's misrepresentations of the facts about the termination of Breuer's treatment of Anna O., I wrote in rebuttal of Gay: "There was no 'misremembering' by Freud." This is not entirely accurate. In the course of "reconstructing" his phoney story of the "phantom pregnancy" of Anna O., Freud made an error that did involve misremembering, though since the error in question resulted in supposed corroborating evidence for his invented story one wonders whether it was really Freud's memory at fault -- it is equally likely that he simply put this erroneous item in the story to bolster its plausibility. As Freud told the story (to Ernest Jones and other colleagues) Breuer's supposed panic-stricken "flight" from the patient in June 1882 led to his taking a second honeymoon with his wife, resulting in the birth of their last child, Dora. But Dora was born some three months *before* the termination of the treatment! Misremembering or deliberate falsehood? Who knows? As Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen writes in relation to the different versions of this story that floated around in Freud's circle: "But who even cares, in the unreal, derealized universe of psychoanalysis, where interpretation passes for reality and fiction is taken for truth." (*Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification*, Routledge, 1996, p. 47)
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